Submitted 4 months ago by MacedWindow@lemmy.world to games@lemmy.world
I’ve been looking for some more instrumental music to listen to while working, besides putting FF and Stardew on loop.
Ultrakill has some bangers, didn’t even play the game Injust stumbled on the OST.
The Witcher 3, I love BANANA TIGER.
Red Dead Redemption 1 and 2.
No Man’s Sky
Lost Ember
Gris
Deep Rock Galactic
Route 96
So so so many more
I would suggest “quake 2”, it’s rock /metal and put me in a good mood when I work. Now if you like instrumental metal, it’s no game music, but I would suggest Aephenemer (their official instrumental playlist is on YouTube).
Child of light
Offworld Trading Company. Haven’t played the game but it’s a great sci-fi soundtrack by Christopher Tin of Civ IV fame.
Thomas was alone OST is superb.
XCOM 2 Legacy Soundtrack. Some darned good beats on there.
Wh40k: Mechanicus has some amazing music.
Portal 2, Minecraft, Half Life 2, Black Mesa, Team Fortress 2, Battle Block Theatre, Doom 2016, Doom Eternal,…
No-one has suggested Baldur’s Gate 3?
Tropico 3
The Battlefield V soundtrack is pretty great, in my opinion.
BF1 also has a really great soundtrack made by the same people.
Fire Emblem Fates, Telltale’s The Walking Dead, and Ocarina of Time are some of my favorite Soundtracks in my library
Since you already mentioned Final Fantasy (I assume that’s FF).
Halo 2
Nier:Automata
Undertale
I liked the music in La-Mulana 1&2.
Commenting here because I tend to enjoy game soundtracks and want to look these up.
@MacedWindow Diablo 2 for sure
Portal / Portal 2
“Science Is Fun” is a great track, as are the end songs “Still Alive” and “I Want You Gone”.
Can’t go wrong with pretty much any pre-Skyward Sword Zelda. SS itself also has Ballad of the Goddess, which was good, but I can’t remember any other tunes from it or BOTW that aren’t just reprises of tracks from previous games.
Overall, Surviving Mars might be my favorite work soundtrack. Assorted tracks from Stellaris plus the Age of Wonders and Civilization series are also good. Something about the soundtracks in 4X games and games like them always puts me in a productive mood while not making me emotional and thus distracted like RPG soundtracks can sometimes.
Since you like FF, I’d suggest looking into Uematsu’s other works as well, especially Lost Odyssey. For similar ones in the genre, there’s also Yasunori Mitsuda’s work in the Chrono and Xeno series.
I prefer Sci-fi background noise so Surviving Mars is my favorite. Mass Effect is ok but I find it gets a little too cinematic and bombastic at times. FTL and Into The Breach, or really anything by Ben Prunty is good too
Stellaris. Absolutely fantastic.
Spiritfarer has an excellent soundtrack, which is utterly wasted on such a mediocre game.
As an added bonus, some of the tracks on the OST are longer than you’ll ever experience in game because they cut them short for some reason.
Cloudpunk OST for a Blade Runner vibe.
Civilization Beyond Earth and Battletech have marvelous soundtracks
FAR: Lone Sails
What Remains of Edith Finch
Divinity II: Original Sin
Frostpunk
These are all (mostly) non-vocal, great for some background noise. Great games too!
BigBananaDealer@lemm.ee 4 months ago
starfield the game is divisive to say the least, but i cant imagine anyone would talk bad about the soundtrack. inon zur’s best work so far, and the death metal songs in there are fucking awesome too